“The Crying Game” by Nicki Minaj is s song about the unhealthy relationship she had with her former long-term boyfriend. The lyrics reflect the pain…
This VICE documentary on the Aokigahara Forest, otherwise known as the Japanese “suicide forest,” follows Azusa Hayano, a geologist, who studies the plantation at the…
Trophy by Anonymous are lyrics written about struggling with depression and loss. The author emphasizes the frustration of wanting these feelings to end, by comparing…
The song “Her Last Words” by Courtney Parker addresses the topics of depression, self-harm, and suicide from the perspective of a girl who is experiencing…
‘Whiskey Lullaby’, performed by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss, is a song about loneliness, heartbreak, and alcohol abuse.With lyrics like, “The put him out like…
You are seven years old… alone in the hospital, away from home and the support of family and friends. You can’t go to school, roughhouse…
This poem, written by Colleen Mulroney, describes the constant experience of pain overshadowing happiness. Despite the overall melancholy tone of the piece, she does end…
The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 devastated the two cities and countless lives. Some survivors coped with their grief through art,…
Valeria Golino’s 2013 Italian drama Miele (translation: Honey) follows the not-so-sweet life of Irene (Jasmine Trinca), a medical school dropout who helps euthanize terminally ill…
“I saw you doubling over and it felt like a shot right through me. I didn’t see any blood and there was nothing that scared…
